Connecticut western news., 1887-04-20
FOREIGN ITEMS.
There is no cholera at Panama.


 A terrific gale prevailed over Nova Scotia
 Austria will build six immense cavalry bar racks in Galicia for permanent use.
 Lord Lansdowne says Canada will take better cara of her fisheries than ever this year.
 Twenty lives were lost by the wreck of the steamship Victoria in the English Chan mel.
 MT. Goschen, Chancellor of the British Exchequer, will propose in Parliament grant Of S2Oo,GO0 to the Imperial Institute
 At six meetings held in Leeds, all of which were largely attended, resolutions were adopt ed strongly denouncing the Coercion bill.
 The new station of the Panama Railroad Company is the largest and most imposing building ever erected in Panama for the pur- poses of commerce.
 The draft of the Brandy Tax bill has re- ceived Emperer Williams signature, and will be immediately presented to the Bundesrath as Prussian proposal
 The Pope has written to the Bishops of Alsace-Lorraine, counselling them to avoid party questions, and to be especially careful to give Germany no pretext for complaints.
 The police of Brunswick have made sec- ond descent upon the residence of Dr. Bede- kind, the well-known Hanoverian partisan, and seized several thousand Guelph pamphlets.
 The Central American Diet recently held in Guatemala agreed to treaty of friendship and commerce between the five Central Ameri- can Republics which amounts almost to con- federation.
 The Russian royal family have abandoned the proposed journey to the Crimea owing to the grave reports received from the interior. Two hundred and sixty political arrests were made at Odessa on Easter Sunday. Five per sons were surprised in cellar there while en- gagged in filling bombs.
 The drink bill of Great Britain and Ire land for 1886 was f122, 905, 765 or f3 7ssd per had o1n O nn1,f1n c3n 1876 when the quantity consumed was $147,- 2SS, 759, or f4 9s. per head. There has been an increase in the consumption of beer, but a large falling off in spirits. -Nihilists continue to try to murder the Czar.
 The Portuguese Government has conclud- ed treaty of friendship with China.
 The London Obseroe,' gives President Cleveland scolding anent the fisheries ques- tion.
 A torpedo boat, built for the Chinese gov ernment in England, attains the enormous speed of 24 knots an hour Fully 15O, ,00O 1rishmen and their sympath- izers met in Hyde Park, London, to utter pro- tests against Government iron rule and CO., ercion.
 A Vienna correspondent says the Nihilists are undaunted by their failures, and circulars are being distrit uted in Russia which say that the CZar Will Ole De1Ore three months eAe pire.
 Emperor Francis Joseph has sent his DOT trait in a silver frame, with his autograph, to Gen. Kaulbars as & token of regard. Gen. Kaulbars was formerly military attache to the Russian Embassy at Vienna.
 Emperor Williams private secretary, re- plying to loyal address sent to the Emperor by the Metz Municipal Council, said "His Majesty much regrets that illne prevented him from making his proposed visit to Metz last autumn.
 In consequence of England's treatment of Ireland and the attitude of the Irish clergy on the Irish question, the Pope has charged Car. dinal Simeoni, Pretect of the Congregation of the Propaganda, to make tn rough inquiry into the whole matter and to draft instructions for the Irish bishops. | Daniel Grace. farmer of Kilbarry, county Cork, was evicted after most de- termined resistance. A force of police went to his house early to evict him, but he had erected barricades and succeeded ill keeping the officers at bay all day long. The struggle was renewed next day, but the police finally effected an entrance, and Grace was driven | from his home.